On May 13, 10:07=A0pm, "bam" <mcca5b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Dan" <dannyk1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 12, 6:24 pm, "bam" <mcca5b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "**Rowland Croucher**" <rccroucher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > bam wrote:
> > >> "**Rowland Croucher**" <rccroucher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> messagenews:48277619$0$30463$afc38c87@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >>> bam wrote:
> > >>>> "arah" <arah1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >>>> "But do not be called Teacher (Rabbi); for One is your Teacher,
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> > >>>> you are all brothers. Do not call anyone on earth Father;
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> > >>>> Rom 4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is
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> > >>>> father according to the flesh?
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> > >>>> Php 2:22 Now know ye the proof of him: that as a son with the
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> > >>>> so hath he served with me in the gospel.
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> > >>>>> Am I right to conclude that the many Churches have mislead
> > >>>>> Christians
> > >>>> >from the true teaching of Jesus, they collect money and wealth
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> > >>>>> their own used?
> > >>>> Yes you are. Now let's get logical. They all disagree with each
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> > >>>> on one or more doctrinal points. So they might all be wrong. Or
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> > >>>> them might be right. But two of them cannot be right.
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> > >>>> Agreed?
> > >>> No. Two or more people/groups can be right about something, and
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> > >>> realize that they're viewing *part* of the puzzle...
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> > >> No - I'm talking about the same piece of the puzzle. But thanks for
> > >> trying.
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> > >> There has always
> > >>> been a marvelous diversity in the Christian Church, which is not
> > >>> appreciated by those who want simplistic answers to everything
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> > >> Marvelous diversity? So it doesn't matter what Jesus said or what a
> > >> Christian believes?
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> > > What Jesus said and did was interpreted differently by his various
> > > Gospel-writers and followers. Simple stuff agreed to by even
> > > conservative
> > > theologians...
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> > >> Are you going to call heresy "marvelous diversity"?
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> > > Heresy as defined by whom?
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> > >> If it were marvelous diversity, why don't all the Protestant sects
> > >> unite?
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> > > Why don't all the various groups/teams/chain-stores/political
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> > > al unite?
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> > >> Apparently they don't agree with your assessment.
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> > Another lost sheep........
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> > BAM-
> >As opposed to a "found sheep"?
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> No, a sheep must first be lost in order to be subsequently found.
According to the teaching of your own church, we all start out as
"lost sheep", although some are "found" (via baptism) as infants. Are
you a Pelagian?
>You had a
> point, I presume?
Only that metaphors--especially biblical ones--ought to be used
carefully.
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